Jack Diederich

python-dev, PSF fellow ermeritus, bowler, con speaker, stories, zone-6 farmer. Sailing around the world in a dirty gondola.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

My Talks: Stop Writing Classes https://t.co/ux7I966VPp Useful Namespaces https://t.co/h1TWtgeFBh Name Things Once https://t.co/xDUu9aby3U

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

It’s pretty clear nobody in @awscloud leadership has ever seen a customer’s bill. If they had, it’d have ads on it by now.

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

At Archil, we have the privilege of working with nearly all of the teams building frontier agents at scale. One thing that we heard over and over again: is grep really the right tool to search over my file system data as it grows?

Today, we're answering that question with a resounding yes by releasing Archil grep.

Archil grep makes it simple to take advantage of massive map-reduce compute to search your data, without needing to configure external systems, indexes, ETL, etc.

Give your agents `disk.grep` to 10x their search performance by only changing a single line of code.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

in addition to the fifty bucks I had to make an appointment during business hours. That isn't a lot of friction but it is some friction. At the margins there are some people for whom that friction is too much.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

the 9 y/o's school upgraded their IT system so that everything goes to text messages. Do you want to know who won the school council elections for 4th grade? Bad luck, fuck you, because you're getting a text about it regardless. Also there is an app.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

A general complaint about safety. To volunteer for *anything* I had to get an FBI fingerprint test that attested I had no record. It wasn't expensive (about $50 ) but I have never been fingerprinted in my life because I am - like 99% of people - boring in the ways they care about

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

Meteor exploded off the coast of Boston https://t.co/inKI7EnNMa

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@GMcHorseman the odds that a speaker at a tech conference owns a tractor are higher than you think.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@chadwhitacre @sentry @osendowment that's more hardcore than me! If you find yourself on the other end of the state you should stop by our farm.

[Gareth Dwyer ⠕ @sixhobbits]

LLMs ruined Chesterton's Fence

before agents:

q: 'why is this random fence with no obvious purpose here?'
a: 'someone had problem, this was solution'

after agents:

q: 'why is this random fence with no obvious purpose here?'
a: 'agent put it here randomly for no purpose'

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@mitsuhiko there is a lot of delusion about how simple it is to align the law and reality. In the US there is a group of people who think deporting illegals is impossible but confiscating all the guns easy, and another that thinks deportations are easy and confiscating guns impossible.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@pythonrocksnake @wrowclif I grew up with Wawa. Wawa is dead to me. The deli has gradually grown to match Subway (and not in a good way). They got rid of sauerkraut 15+ years ago. McDonalds has better coffee.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

You can bake a potato without poking holes in it first. It bakes like usual. You have nothing to lose but your chains

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@pythonrocksnake @RealPlantBrah Zone 6b. Started from seed last spring. They survived in those tiny pots down to 25F this winter (unheated greenhouse, 0F outside). They are going in the ground this week so next winter will be the true test.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@Thingee I was there last year but this year couldn't schedule it. Maybe next year.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@feoh @badlogicgames HR once sent out an email asking people to avoid "Promotion Oriented Architecture" i.e. complicated designs that bulked up your resume. You get more of what you reward.

[Dan Craig @DanielRCraig]

It's not rocket science, but command line interfaces matter. I'm looking forward to presenting "How to Write a Great Command Line Application" at #pycon on Friday, 12:30p.

https://t.co/BlXLL3EE5Z

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@gvanrossum you don't have to say nice things about politicians. I'd strongly recommend against it even. Porter is making a point that she has "grown" and no longer physically abuses staffers and her (ex) husband. You are not required to believe a politician.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@pythonrocksnake @powerbottomdad1 @lymanstoneky there's also peer pressure involved. The reason the 9 y/o and I have a hole in the yard we are digging is because the neighbor kid and his dad are also digging a hole.

/for reasons unknown to me digging a hole with an actual purpose is "not as fun"

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@kristjanvalur the baked beans seem like trolling but not be terrible. I'm reminded of the time Beazley and I traded images of breakfast hotdogs.

[Jack Diederich @jackdied]

@real_landru @gpjt purchased in paperback; It'll be my next bowling alley book. I, sadly, won't be able to pass it on to "The Desk" (aka Tina) because the bowling alley was just sold and Tina is out. She was always asking what people were reading and frequently borrowed from me.